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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Sixty-four percent of Likud voters, 90 percent of Yamina voters and 62 percent of Yisrael Beiteinu voters support extension of Israeli law to the Jordan Valley and parts of Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel's plan to apply its law in parts of Judea and Samaria represents an “existential threat,” says P.A. Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Borrell has threatened Israel with diplomatic action following the new government’s announced wish to declare sovereignty in parts of Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi also accused President Donald Trump of “acquiescence” amid the rise in anti-Semitism in the United States and abroad.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Settler leaders ramp up objections to Trump peace plan as Yamina leader Naftali Bennett warns of 'existential disaster' of a Palestinian state.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Continued Israeli talk of annexing Palestinian lands must stop," tweeted UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The current prime minister outlines Israel’s five biggest challenges: rebuilding the economy; preparing for a second wave of the coronavirus; security and defense; the threat of the International Criminal Court; and applying Israeli law to the Jordan Valley and Judea and Samaria.
By Israel Hayom
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg says his country rejects “prejudice” against the Jewish state, and calls for dialogue with Israel’s new government.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Within the EU there is no unanimous agreement on Israel, but that isn't stopping EU’s High Representative Josep Borrell.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli soldiers open fire on Jerusalem Arabs preparing to hurl firebombs at their post in the village of Abu Dis, wounding three, military says.
Two armed terrorists from nearby Beit Fajr were making their way to the Kibbutz in the middle of the night.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
At a joint press conference in Jerusalem, America's top diplomat says that the IDF soldier's murder in a Palestinian rock attack the previous day “reminds us of the importance of making sure that people across the world know that Israel has the right to defend itself.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The senators originally threatened to destroy bipartisan support for Israel.
By Ariel Kahana
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is reportedly pushing to penalize Jerusalem if it moves ahead with plans to apply Israeli law to parts of Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Only 47% of Israeli Arabs throught that PA Arabs living in the annexed areas should be given Israeli citizenship.
By Ariel Kahana
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman believes that applying Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria can take place in a matter of weeks. In a special interview, he dismisses the Left's criticism, saying, "We have doubled areas A' and B' and reassures the Right it will only have to contend with a Palestinian state "if the Palestinians become Canadian."
By Aryeh Savir & Baruch Yedid / Tazpit News Agency
Abbas has previously threatened to sever all their and end all treaties signed with Israel on several occasions.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Much remains unclear as to how Israel will progress with the implementation of this plan.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The EU is upset with Israel talking about the possible application of sovereignty.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Blue&White Party leader Benny Gantz must abandon plans to apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria and reject the idea of a “Jewish majority” government, says Joint List's Ayman Odeh.
The elections will have a significant role in how the Deal of the Century gets implemented.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A day before elections, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria “will happen within weeks, two months at the most” if he wins.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Jewish construction will be frozen in areas outside the map lines.
The congressmen began their tour on the “Heritage Trail” in Beersheva, where they learned about the biblical Abraham and the ties of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel.
Students from Derech Avot showed some Jewish spirit.
While holding a meeting in their sovereignty protest test, the council leaders were invited in for a meeting with the prime minister.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"If Israel’s government continues with steps to annex the West Bank, the U.S. should make clear that none of our aid should be used to support annexation," Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told the New York Times in a recent survey of candidates' policy positions.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Last week, settlement leaders said Prime Minister Netanyahu told them there are some technical differences within the US administration.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The EU is “especially concerned” by Israel’s statements on the prospect of the annexation of the Jordan Valley and other parts of Judea and Samaria ad stressed that it does not recognize Israel’s sovereignty over “the territories occupied since 1967.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Gantz apparently does not have the legal ability to move forward with pushing the Deal of the Century through the Knesset and must wait for Netanyahu’s government to vote on it.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Maimonides rules that a Jew is obligated to offer the Passover sacrifice even when the Temple has not yet been built.
"The citizens of the State of Israel will count very well every hand that doesn’t go up and vote for sovereignty over the Jordan Valley."
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo opened the conference by announcing that the United States is “disavowing” the 1978 Hansell Memorandum, a State Department memo that claimed Israeli settlements violate international law.
Bennett recently threatened to demolish any illegal Arab construction in Area C, even if it was funded by the European Union.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"We’re disavowing the deeply flawed 1978 Hansell memo, and we’re returning to a balanced and sober Reagan-era approach.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Some candidates believe that Jews don't have the right to live in Judea, others imagine Jews living there pushes away peace with our avowed enemies and endangers Israel.
There were strong reactions to the expected US declaration on the legality of Jewish settlement activity in Judea and Samaria.
By Josh Hasten
“Even though the ECJ ruled against us , this is just the beginning of the fight. We are not going to accept a double standard,” said CEO of Psagot Winery Yaakov Berg.
There are over 200 ongoing territorial disputes worldwide, yet the ECJ has only offered a single ruling - related to the Jewish people.
By Ariel Kahana
The plan, which includes a $283 million expansion of the road connecting Jerusalem and Gush Etzion, aims to "end the current isolation of Judea and Samaria ... so that the area is just like any other region in Israel," according to the Transportation Ministry.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Rivlin: "There is no doubt Jerusalem is a microcosm of our ability to live together. And we will continue to ensure freedom of religion for all faiths.”
The PA's governor of Shechem claimed the ancient Jewish site is threatened by the occupation and settlers.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
According to recent reports, Trump’s plan, dubbed “Deal of the Century,” entails US recognition of Israeli ownership over areas already under its full control.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The signees were the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Union for Reform Judaism, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, MERCAZ, the Rabbinical Assembly, the ADL, Ameinu, the National Council of Jewish Women and the Israel Policy Forum.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said the maps are being officially redrawn and will be made available “as soon as they are ready.”
"After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability!"
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The bill states in part that “it is in the United States national security interest to ensure that Israel retains control of the Golan Heights."
Israeli police made sure the radical leftwing provocateurs did not enter Oz v'Gaon and destroy the access road.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If enacted, it would make Ireland the first European Union nation to criminalize doing business beyond the pre-1967 lines, including eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Earlier this week, a missile was fired at the Hermon Mountain, prompting Israel to launch a massive attack on numerous Iranian targets in Syria.
By JNi.Media
Levy repeats the mantra that only the complete return of Judea and Samaria to the Arabs would guarantee the desired, long-lasting peace.
Druze MKs argue that the law violates fundamental rights such as the right to equality, and doesn’t give equal status to non-Jewish minorities.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly defended the new Jewish Nation-State Basic Law that was voted in last week.
Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu issued a veiled rebuke to the United Kingdom Sunday less than 48 hours before.
These two youth have the honor of being the first two people arrested at the protests in Netiv Ha'Avot on Tuesday morning.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The establishment of a new community is a message of Zionism and strength in the face of terrorism,” says Housing Minister Yoav Gallant.
“We have to take responsibility for our future!” challenged Sara Haetzni-Cohen, a scion of a prominent Gush Emunim family. “If the Land of Israel belongs to us, let’s act like it!”
By JNi.Media
"Once a binding definition of the settlement blocs has been determined, Israeli law must be applied to them in full," MK Cabel demands.
By Adam Kredo
The amendment puts America on Israel's side in the land dispute and describes the Golan Heights as a key piece of territory that cannot fall under the influence of Syria or Iran
By JNi.Media
The Netanyahu government and all the Israeli governments before it, are in a Catch 22 bind.
By JNi.Media
Four hundred participants packed the event to support Judea and Samaria in face of delegitimization and boycotts, organized by YESHA Council.
Israel's Ministry of Education has long fought to prevent the Palestinian Authority from infiltrating Arab schools in Jerusalem.
Before this article went to press, Congressmen Tipton and McKinley were detained by Israeli police for daring to pick up an olive branch which they found lying on the ground while touring on the Temple Mount. See our story about what happened. On their trip to Israel this week, two U.S. Congressman are focusing on […]
“Today, nobody remembers President Reagan’s sanctions, but we are left with full Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.”
By JNi.Media
"In the Middle East, weakness, concessions and indecisiveness only encourage the forces of evil that seek to destroy us."
August 7, 2026 
